Oh, my! What a treat! "The Terrible Old Man" is one of my favorite stories. It is so excellent. I would recite that tale to my grandmother. She sat back, framed by her picture window and Pennsylvania sunshine, and smiled the whole time. She always said, "That is quite a story. They always said those old retired sea captains knew and saw so much. " I gave the requisite arm pump and deep pull of my Oktoberfest when I saw this tale on the list. I love all seven. I always wanted to draw "The Thing in the Moonlight." The pictures people make of that creature are "nightmare worthy." I just started this and already love it. Fantastic job, Sir Ian. Seven tales by the great, narrated by the great, is always an evening well-spent. Thanks for this excellent treat!
A little over 40 years ago, I read the thing in the moonlight and was hooked. The problem was the book it was in had it listed as Lovecraft, and finding it again took a long long time. The truth is, at 8, back in the 80s, it was kinda hard to research and find things, especially in a small southern town. So, thank you for the stories. I love all of them
Love the voice of the narrator it helps me sleep more so than anyone elses voice. Better than a teacher drowning on in a class while your tired. I have to say i thank you so much for this relief from insomnia
The terrible old man is a fitting example that with Lovecraft old feeble people have sinister intentions and should not be taken for granted as weak and harmless.
Til A the Seas played like a movie in my head hearing this narration. I'm tempted to try and write it out. It's got everything needed for a bit of dramatic, low-budget, thought provoking, and depressing kenophobic cinema. The dread and despair of extinction and a desert wasteland.
The 'Terrible Old Man' is a perfect little story. Also the most Lovecraftian of stories. Not sure he did better. Always a big fan of The Other Gods too.
NO CAN ANSWER. As soon as I hear your voice my eyes droop my shoulders too i fall into my pillow with a deep sigh , yawwn a bit and next thing I know the bloody alarms going off again.
They might not be his most important works, but I have a special love for HPL’s early, brief dream stories. They’re so atmospheric and evocative. The Thing in the Moonlight is profoundly creepy.
Till A the Seas is a gem I’ve never heard. Part one could be read verbatim in a courtroom by current day scientists who are desperately trying to save our planet. 😢
"The Old Man's not so terribly Misanthropic" ua-cam.com/video/7xvvMYLvGn8/v-deo.htmlsi=TUXtMM0K-z6sJ6Sf by Rudimentary Peni If you like H.P. Lovecraft & British anarcho-punk, then there's an entire album dedicated to Lovecraft and all his novellas. See how many YOU recognize! 🤠✌ ua-cam.com/video/NL-sX36SJvc/v-deo.htmlsi=R2CJK58PbPdJuOuS Album: Cacophony Artist: Rudimentary Peni (recluse artist - Nick Blinko) Enjoy! 🤠✌
@@shawnvogt888 Yes, Death Church is definitely their great ones. I got into them during the "EPs of RP" album, then Death Church, Cacophony, and Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric, when Nick Blinko was institutionalized in a mental asylum. Not to mention his artwork. A very underrated band, nonetheless.
@@theNuclearNixons I believe I had Cacophony first, through tape trading, then picked up the others through mail order. They really are outstanding, whether it's the music, lyrics, or artwork. They, along with Crass, got me into the anarcho sounds. Cheers!
I do like "The Other Gods". Have soft spot for such "lore building" stories. Which have no particular moral or complex plot and just expand the view of built world.
Just saying, I have worn out my audible copy of Horrorbabble’s Ultimate Lovecraft collection. I think it’s time for a volume 2. one can only listen to Through the Gates of the Silver Key 🔑 so many times! Would love if you‘d bundle some of these with Re-Animator and put it out there 🤩
Our expanded Cthulhu Mythos collection is on its way to Audible, but it's taking a while. And I'm planning to put out a complete Lovecraft collection when I've finished recording the last couple of works. I'll get there!
@@HorrorBabble Thanks for your quick reply, I will absolutely be getting myself a copy when it's out. I wasn't just picking that story out at random by the way, I love your reading of it you really set the scene. Thanks again and a happy October!
I need help from you guys I cannot remember the name of the story. A man is knocked out by an old weapon ricocheting off The shield while he is unconscious he lives an entire life of of a man fighting the serpent clan
You would think an Englishman would certainly know how to pronounce a very common French title, and then, be able to find out how to pronounce a simple slavic last name. -The Terrible Old Man
Just my opinion, but what Ian gets right about his Lovecraft readings is he sounds unsettled. It seems like most of Lovecrafts stories are told from the point of view of someone hesitantly sharing their story. While so many other youtube readings sounds like a camp counselor sitting by a fire holding a flashlight under his chin and trying to be spooooooooky.
Phone: charging
Bed: Tucked and occupied
Warren: still dead, you fool.
That's everything on the checklist lads...g'night
Hurray !! An evening with Mr Gordon, a fluffy blanket and a cuppa. Life is good.
Oh, my! What a treat! "The Terrible Old Man" is one of my favorite stories. It is so excellent. I would recite that tale to my grandmother. She sat back, framed by her picture window and Pennsylvania sunshine, and smiled the whole time. She always said, "That is quite a story. They always said those old retired sea captains knew and saw so much. " I gave the requisite arm pump and deep pull of my Oktoberfest when I saw this tale on the list.
I love all seven. I always wanted to draw "The Thing in the Moonlight." The pictures people make of that creature are "nightmare worthy."
I just started this and already love it.
Fantastic job, Sir Ian. Seven tales by the great, narrated by the great, is always an evening well-spent.
Thanks for this excellent treat!
I also cannot forget "The Alchemist". That is a fascinating and very interesting story. That is an amazing one, too! They all are!
There's a contemporary short film of "The Terrible Old Man" on YT. Highly recommended.
@@Kitsaplorax I will check it out. Thanks!
This channel is a cherished boon upon humanity.
"The Terrible Old Man' is an old favorite, but the rest were strangers to me until I heard them here. Thanks for adding this.
I remember reading Till a' the Seas... It's by far so chilling. It's so inevitable in the story
I find it his most unnerving because it feels so different than what you expect from lovecraft and feels oddly rooted in reality
The story I believe is based on the assumption that the sun will slowly go red giant and burn away all Earth’s water before incinerating what’s left.
@@brownwhale5518 yes
The Other Gods is a dream cycle classic!
Oh Yog yes! Ive traveled that one many times!
Still love the intro even after all these years... Poor Warren... 😅
A little over 40 years ago, I read the thing in the moonlight and was hooked. The problem was the book it was in had it listed as Lovecraft, and finding it again took a long long time.
The truth is, at 8, back in the 80s, it was kinda hard to research and find things, especially in a small southern town.
So, thank you for the stories. I love all of them
Warren gave his life for us, rest in peace Warren
There is no better way to spend the morning, noon, or evening than this! Thank you for such wonderful stories. 😊👍
Warren i love the complation stories . Thankyou looking forward to the next story . Thankyou Ian and Jen for your creativity.
I always liked the Terrible Old Man
I want that said at my funeral
I guess that makes him a nice old man. Tsss tsss
@@chrislevack405 Ebenezer Scrooge is one of my heroes
@@LucicPower i was making a shtty troll joke based on an Opie and Anthony character.
@@chrislevack405 😀
Love to hear the less common Lovecraft tales!
Love the voice of the narrator it helps me sleep more so than anyone elses voice.
Better than a teacher drowning on in a class while your tired.
I have to say i thank you so much for this relief from insomnia
Wonderful stuff, Ian! 🥰🐙👻☠🙌
THANK YOU IAN
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS 💎
This is great! I was lucky enough to see this post because I was running out of options for tonight. Thank You Ian and Jen
Thanks so much ian. This is exactly what I needed at 7am when i finally got to go to sleep 🙏
A creepy evening of obscure Lovecraft tales with only my 11-pound cairn terrier mix for protection. Yay! (I’m confident she’s got this; no worries.)
The terrible old man is a fitting example that with Lovecraft old feeble people have sinister intentions and should not be taken for granted as weak and harmless.
And that people not from the Northeast are by nature, thieves :(
And the evil old man of The Picture in the House. And certainly several extremely unpleasant old women.
The Alchemist is a favorite of mine. It has a story fit for a shorter movie.
Til A the Seas played like a movie in my head hearing this narration. I'm tempted to try and write it out. It's got everything needed for a bit of dramatic, low-budget, thought provoking, and depressing kenophobic cinema.
The dread and despair of extinction and a desert wasteland.
Outstanding video as always cheers Ian!👻
The 'Terrible Old Man' is a perfect little story. Also the most Lovecraftian of stories. Not sure he did better. Always a big fan of The Other Gods too.
NO CAN ANSWER. As soon as I hear your voice my eyes droop my shoulders too i fall into my pillow with a deep sigh , yawwn a bit and next thing I know the bloody alarms going off again.
Thanks Ian,for the other gods it's brilliant and I've not heard it for a long time.
Thank for these horror stories, your voice reminds me of Vincent Price.
Thank you so much for this.
Terrible Old Man my favourite as well.
The Other Gods and The Alchemist are two of my favorites, and The Terrible Old Man is a benchmark of short horror.
The Other Gods is pretty key to Lovecraft's ideas
Just what I needed, just whatit demands
The terrible old man summoning a bunch of ghost pirates to beat the crap out of the burglars is pretty great
Love the lesser known tales!
Thank you!
I’ve completed listening to the stories I knew. Now I lay in the dark listening and venturing into a Lovecraftian dreamscape. Warren, Is that you?
Out of these The Terrible Old Man and The Other Gods have always been favourites of mine.
Is it possible that we’ve already begun living in the world of Till A’ the Seas?
First timer to these tales! My audible account is barely used these days!
there are a couple horrbabble books on Audible narrated by Ian. They’re very good. I have a couple of them.
Absolutely exceptional like all of your readings!
I really think Th Terrible Old Man is one of his best x
They might not be his most important works, but I have a special love for HPL’s early, brief dream stories. They’re so atmospheric and evocative. The Thing in the Moonlight is profoundly creepy.
Thanks Ian for all yer hard work
Sometimes when earths gods are homesick…
They listen to Ian Gordon on Horrorbabble
“Till A’ the Seas” is my fav out of these. Not sure why. Just something about it draws me.
About to find a new favorite!
Till a’ the seas is wickedly prescient! Seems some things never change across the generations.
Till A' the Seas was a new one to me, and feel uncomfortably close to a future we seem less and less likely to avoid.
"Till A' The seas" was fantastic.
Wonderful stuff!!!
Till A the Seas is a gem I’ve never heard. Part one could be read verbatim in a courtroom by current day scientists who are desperately trying to save our planet. 😢
I like the Terrible Old Man.
"The Old Man's not so terribly Misanthropic"
ua-cam.com/video/7xvvMYLvGn8/v-deo.htmlsi=TUXtMM0K-z6sJ6Sf
by Rudimentary Peni
If you like H.P. Lovecraft & British anarcho-punk, then there's an entire album dedicated to Lovecraft and all his novellas. See how many YOU recognize! 🤠✌
ua-cam.com/video/NL-sX36SJvc/v-deo.htmlsi=R2CJK58PbPdJuOuS
Album: Cacophony
Artist: Rudimentary Peni (recluse artist - Nick Blinko) Enjoy! 🤠✌
Rudimentary Peni are wicked. Love Death Church, as well. Truly brilliant stuff.
@@shawnvogt888 Yes, Death Church is definitely their great ones. I got into them during the "EPs of RP" album, then Death Church, Cacophony, and Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric, when Nick Blinko was institutionalized in a mental asylum. Not to mention his artwork. A very underrated band, nonetheless.
@@theNuclearNixons I believe I had Cacophony first, through tape trading, then picked up the others through mail order. They really are outstanding, whether it's the music, lyrics, or artwork. They, along with Crass, got me into the anarcho sounds. Cheers!
Awesome! I had forgotten Rudi Peni made that album ...love Blinko!
More LOVECRAFT CONTENT 💜🤘🦇
Back to 1 of the authors who got this channel started 😂
The Other Gods is awesome, it has no business being under-listened too. 😂
I hadn't noticed the mention of Wandrei at the beginning of 'The Thing in the Moonlight' before.
That Mormon girl in the ad is sooo cute!😍
I have to wonder if there are any about or related to Volcanoes. Either from Lovecraft or Clark Ashtob Smith or whomever.
I do like "The Other Gods".
Have soft spot for such "lore building" stories.
Which have no particular moral or complex plot and just expand the view of built world.
Is there ever a possibility of getting some of Lovecraft’s poetry in a video?
Just saying, I have worn out my audible copy of Horrorbabble’s Ultimate Lovecraft collection. I think it’s time for a volume 2.
one can only listen to Through the Gates of the Silver Key 🔑 so many times! Would love if you‘d bundle some of these with Re-Animator and put it out there 🤩
Our expanded Cthulhu Mythos collection is on its way to Audible, but it's taking a while. And I'm planning to put out a complete Lovecraft collection when I've finished recording the last couple of works. I'll get there!
@@HorrorBabble Thanks for your quick reply, I will absolutely be getting myself a copy when it's out.
I wasn't just picking that story out at random by the way, I love your reading of it you really set the scene. Thanks again and a happy October!
Would you ever consider doing The Horror at Red Hook? I've always liked that one, but I rarely see it.
Here it is: horrorbabble.bandcamp.com/album/the-horror-at-red-hook
Complete
Who do you think would win in a fight, the thing in the moonlight or the thing on the doorstep?
57:03 Oh, Gods just want to have fun...
Thanks for letting us know that Warren is still dead.
I need help from you guys I cannot remember the name of the story. A man is knocked out by an old weapon ricocheting off The shield while he is unconscious he lives an entire life of of a man fighting the serpent clan
Good
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I don't feel the need to explain my art to you Warren.
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You mean Salem was America's Pendle witch trial?as Pendle predates Salem
My name is Jeff, I'm looking for my brother Warren. Has anyone seen him?
He dead Jeff
@@sarge4455 .. you fool
my name jeff
Jeff. Warren is not dead, Not exactly
You would think an Englishman would certainly know how to pronounce a very common French title, and then, be able to find out how to pronounce a simple slavic last name. -The Terrible Old Man
I always look these things up, but no two pronunciation examples are ever the same!
Till a’ the Seas gets more poignant every year. 🥵
Just my opinion, but what Ian gets right about his Lovecraft readings is he sounds unsettled. It seems like most of Lovecrafts stories are told from the point of view of someone hesitantly sharing their story. While so many other youtube readings sounds like a camp counselor sitting by a fire holding a flashlight under his chin and trying to be spooooooooky.
hooray! first!
Imagine those fools ignoring climate change until it was too late in 'Till A' the Seas' 🤣
"coherency"?. Oh c'mon Mr.Gordon. The word you need is "coherence". No need for the 'y'.
I think you might want to take that up with the writer of the story. J. Chapman Miske in this instance.
I too float often near the green meadow , now more often thanks to your eurdite tales.